Obviously this was not a pleasant interview. Mendez just broke up with the columnist of the "Chicago Times". She got out of the car and hurried across the courtyard. Her hands even trembled a little until she came to the living room, unplugged the phone line that was still making harsh noises, then pulled out her small pills from the drawer, and picked up the ones that were there before going out in the morning. The water glass, raised his head and poured it in.

Come to think of it, at such a moment, Mendes' assistant, Ms. Jenny, was a little afraid of her regular customer. She stood by the door and watched Mendes shrinking on the old sofa chair gradually become calm. , and then dared to go over and tidy up everything she messed up for Mendes.

Mendes looked towards the courtyard. She was not annoyed that her emotions had lost control again, and she also rejected Jenny's proposal to call her psychiatrist for her. She was just thinking about everything she had just experienced.

Mendes has to admit that in the past few months, her attitude towards these media has indeed been a bit harsh, and she doesn't care what those people say behind her back that she is a weird old woman. The capital of these, because she documented the life of her sister, the memoir that has attracted a lot of attention.

Mendes is indeed a little complacent. When many famous people contact her, hoping to use her memoir to do something, the film adaptation is undoubtedly the most gratifying form for her.It’s just that after hearing enough of the producers’ rhetoric, Mendes also began to thank herself for having a bad temper. Otherwise, she might just watch this memoir that meant so much to her become unrecognizable after being put on the screen. look.

Thinking of this, Mendes couldn't help sighing wearily, but considering the current situation, no matter how tough she is, she has shown signs of weakness in several confrontations with Harvey.He hammered the cushion under her body heavily, Mendes frowned and said, "What the hell is this damn Alex Pollin..."

Teaming up with those reporters to smear her dissatisfied starring actors, using public opinion to create pressure, so that the project was shut down, is Mendes' usual method, but the previous few small troubles allowed Alex to save the day. When Mendes met with the reporter today, the latter's answer was not so satisfactory to her. Obviously, Alex either used his personality charm to convince the group of reporters, or the powerful PR team behind him played their part. played a decisive role, but none of this was what Mendes wanted to see.

Mendez glanced at her assistant who seemed hesitant to speak, and couldn't help but sneered: "What does he have? Let you all stand by his side and become dependent on him..."

Jenny has to admit that although Mendes' temper is sometimes so weird that she can't stand it, but after getting along for so many years, they also have an unusual relationship. Of course, she will not give up on Mendes easily, and will respect and support the former And before that, she didn't think that Alex would be the best candidate to be the German police officer in the memoir, even though Alex was unusually handsome, with his aura and outstanding acting skills, even His title of Box Office Bomb... Well, maybe it's because of getting along with Mendes for a long time, and Jenny has become similar to the former. She should confess that Alex is the perfect candidate, and they can't help being picky, especially It was after she watched the clip Harvey sent the day before yesterday.

Seeing Jenny take out this, Mendes immediately stood up angrily, and she yelled: "Damn Harvey, is he provoking me..." This is what annoyed Mendes the most, Regardless of the objections of her, the author with the greatest voice, Harvey has already set up a booth and started filming, even ignoring the court summons warned by Mendes. In short, his legal team is best at this kind of lawsuit, not to mention Harvey has come all the way from Hollywood, and he has never cared about Mendez's level of trouble.

After venting her dissatisfaction to her heart's content, Mendes suddenly calmed down, and she said to Jenny: "Okay, as he wishes, then I'll take a look—"

Decades have passed since that terrible war, and Mendes has changed from a little girl who could only look up at the officer in his memory, to an old woman with age marks on the back of her hands, but Those memories from the beginning are still clear in her mind.

Both her parents had died in the war, and Mendez, her sister, and her grandfather lived tremblingly under the puppet regime of the Vichy government.At that time, the young Mendez didn't know much about all this cruelty. She didn't understand why the Jews who were their neighbors fled their homes, and she didn't understand what kind of place a prisoner of war camp was, let alone her. The food in her hand was bought by her grandfather after he disabled a leg...

Mendez would listen to her sister read the newspaper every day. It said that a German had been assassinated and that 77 French hostages had been buried with him.Mendez couldn't understand the meaning of these awkward words, but she could understand the resentment in her sister's tone, and her grandfather's sad look with red eyes sitting by the fire, so when the German police officer wanted to requisition Mendez hid behind her sister while they were in their house, but cast a disgusted look at the officer, and Mendez clearly remembered that the officer shot at the same officer before she had time to look away. She met eyes.

Mendez was terrified because of how brutal the Germans were in the newspapers, and she was afraid that if she angered the officer, she would end up with the tragic end the newspapers said.And Mendes never thought that she could get a smile from the officer whom she met for the first time, even though the smile was very light, and the arc of his pursed mouth was indescribably cold, but Mendes never Doubting herself, she saw it right, it was a handsome and gentle smile.

Even so, this only reduced Mendez's fear of the officer, but it did not reduce their family's anger towards this hateful German. But a disabled old man and two thin girls, they also What can be done with this tall German officer?They can only keep silent about everything about him in the last way to maintain their dignity.

Mendez thought that such an unpleasant way would arouse the dissatisfaction of the proud officer.But he never said anything about it, he seemed to see the inconvenience of getting along with them, and never tried to disturb their lives, but when he left and returned every day, he used his words with a strong accent to express to them They said goodbye in silence, or good night.He seemed to be waiting for the echo of the people in the living room, standing there quietly, wearing the straight military uniform, the thick overcoat with snow still falling on the shoulders, the fire from the fireplace warmed his pale face from the cold Blush, and the blond hair under his military cap was also beating warmly like a flame.

Watching the back of the officer stepping into the room on the second floor, Mendez couldn't help thinking that his voice seemed to be better than her sister's piano music.

Mendes later wrote in this memoir: "People break down barriers, sometimes with music, sometimes with love."

It was an afternoon, and Mendez finished her nap. She walked to the balcony to feel the rare sunshine in recent days, and then she saw two figures in the garden.It was the officer who was tending to her sister's geraniums, which Mendez would later learn were symbols of the French underground.

Neither of them spoke at first, and when Mendez was tired of the silence, she heard the low and sweet voice like piano music, and the officer said to her sister: "It's already spring." Miss." And her sister just stood there, as if listening to the officer, but she never looked at him, and if she was bored by the voice, she never moved her footsteps. Turn around and leave.

Mendez heard the officer's apology, the one he hadn't finished when he came to the door suddenly that snowy night.He said he was sorry for the fact that they forcibly occupied their homes and ruined their lives. He also said that he did not understand the meaning of this war and that he had always opposed the atrocities of the Nazis, but there was nothing he could do about it either.

Since then, Mendes has learned that the gentlemanly temperament of this German officer is derived from his aristocratic surname.And his whole family were fanatical supporters of the Nazis, and he, who was confused by this, was forcibly sent to France by his father to become a captain.Before coming to Germany, this officer was only a composer, and he also loved literature. He even knew more about the giants of French literature than Mendes' sister, a Frenchman.

That afternoon, the officer told Mendez's sister intermittently.And little Mendez has been lying on the low balcony. She saw the officer take off his uniform jacket, only wearing a white shirt and a gray checked cashmere vest over it. His cuffs were inevitably stained with some dirt. Maybe he didn't need to go out today. His blond hair was not so neatly arranged, and a few strands fell on his forehead casually. Just looking at his back, it was hard to think of it. The officer looked tall and oppressive in his uniform. At this moment, he was like the melting white snow in early spring, bringing warmth in the cold.

After there, Mendez found that the officer didn't just say good night to the silent people every day, he would say something else, such as "I'm sorry, I looked through the books on the shelf without your permission. ", or "The wind is very strong today, you need to pay attention to your body."

Although the three of them still didn't say a word to the officer, Mendes noticed that her sister began to spend more time in front of the mirror, her makeup became more refined, and her eyes began to always look at the officer. One direction, and her sister even took her to secretly watch the captain play the piano, which is Bach's well-tempered, and her sister's favorite piece.

Although the silence that spread from the beginning didn't seem to have changed in any way, there was clearly something quietly growing in it. Some kind of emotion, Mendez was ignorant, but vaguely hoped that everything would develop like this .

It's just that no one thought that parting would come so soon.

When the captain's luggage began to be carried down the stairs by the soldiers, when the captain first appeared in front of them at an inopportune time, Mendes' grandfather was the first to break the silence and speak to the captain for the first time. The dialogue seemed a bit blunt and uncomfortable: "You are leaving tonight..."

"Yes, I'm leaving." The captain stood at the door with a tall and straight figure just like the snowy night when he first arrived.

Then the captain looked at the French girl who stood closest to him, and he never knew that, while he was away, this girl had sneaked into his room, touched the books he had read, and secretly sniffed them. the breath on his coat.And the girl will never know again, although they never said a word, but he thinks she has a pair of beautiful eyes that can talk and understand him, these eyes have appeared countless times in his dreams, Like the blue sea, he was intoxicated from the very beginning.

The captain waited for a long time, he thought it would be great if his girl could say goodbye to him, but in the end he couldn't wait for anything, he lowered his eyelids, turned and left, seeing the figure in the coat was about to disappear In the dark, the girl chased out.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, the captain stopped, and an uncontrollable surprise appeared on his usually calm face, but the joy passed through reality, and the smile made the heart throb.

The two stared at each other, and the German military officer said to the French girl again: "I was transferred to the Russian front - our army won a great victory there."

The girl looked into the captain's gray-blue eyes.

The captain's voice was gentle and calm: "But it's very cold, it's said that it's minus [-] degrees, and our soldiers can't stand the cold." He moved his fingertips hanging by his side, and finally gave up on the move. He took a deep look at the girl in front of him one last time, and said slowly, "Goodbye."

"Goodbye." The girl's calm voice turned into a trembling white mist in the cold night.

The roar of driving cars disappeared at the corner of the street, the girl turned around, and finally cried out in pain.

Mendes looked at the last frame on the TV screen in front of her. It was a close-up close-up of Alex wearing a military uniform. He was looking at herself through the screen. When Mendes came back to his senses, she realized that , I do not know when she had already burst into tears.

Mendes wanted to make a film of the memoir, if she could, because her memory was starting to fade, and the half-clear image of the captain was becoming more and more blurred in her mind, so Mendes Mendes hoped that there would be a film to help her remember, and because of this, Mendes became resistant to this film again, because in her mind, this captain was unique, and no other actor could play his gentlemanly and charming character. .

"But he did it...it was him, I never thought I could see him again..." Mendez muttered the captain's name, her expression also became dazed, her mouth choked up, and she looked at the screen. "They said that he froze to death in Russia, and that he died at the hands of the Nazis because he helped those Jews, but I know that he is still alive..."

After the turmoil of the early days, the movie "Silence of the Sea," starring Alex Mendes and the memoir of the same name, finally entered post-production after four months of shooting.

Maybe it's because the movie was on the cusp from the very beginning, and people have watched too many pornographic stories about the movie. First, the original author didn't cooperate and filed a lawsuit in court. The public's distrust of the lead actor Alex, and because Natalie Portman finally resigned from the film, although both parties have repeatedly explained the force majeure, the hot discussion about the lead actor's discord has never subsided.

It is precisely because of this that the public is not optimistic about this ambitious Olympic film jointly produced by Alex and Harvey. What's more, after the production of the film is over, not only is there little publicity, but it is not screened in the United States. , and only a few people in the circle received the news that Harvey sent the film to Cannes.

Americans seldom pay attention to European film festivals, or there are, but because Europe rarely gives awards to Americans, and Hollywood has always criticized the selection standards of European film festivals, and Europe is also self-contained, so Hollywood is also interested in Europe. Not so interested, and there were few Hollywood stars in attendance. A few years ago, Dennis won the gold medal at the Berlin Film Festival. Naturally, the Hollywood media paid a lot of attention to Europe that year, but this year, I'm afraid I won't be treated so well.

Cohen thought that after finishing this special project, he could finally have a good rest for a while. However, in the early hours of the morning, his work computer, which he never dared to turn off, rang, and the name of his immediate boss immediately woke him up from his sleep. Cohen's wife was woken up quickly, but she didn't have time to complain, because she heard her husband yelling excitedly——

"What did you say?! Alex won this year's Best Actor in Cannes—?"

The author has something to say: Here is another chapter. I have been really busy recently, and I have changed to a new computer. I can’t find the setting of this article and I have almost forgotten it, so everyone is welcome if there are bugs. Find it out for me, if I can change it, I will change it, if I can’t change it, I can only leave it alone~~~~

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